Following are grants of $20,000 and more made by foundations, companies, and other private sources and published by The Chronicle on February 23, 2012. New grants are posted every Thursday.

Announcements of grants can be sent to grants.editor@philanthropy.com.

Date Chronicle Announced Grant Maker Grant Maker's Location Subject How Much Was Given Description
3/1/2012 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Civil society $100,000 For general operating support: $100,000 over 27 months to the Community Organisation Resource Centre (Cape Town, South Africa).
3/1/2012 Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Mich. Civil society $100,000 For general operating support: $100,000 over two years to Tuzla Community Foundation (Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $400,000 For general support: $400,000 over two years to the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $150,000 For advocacy work with conservative and libertarian policy makers and advocates for criminal and juvenile justice reform in Texas and throughout the country: $150,000 to the Texas Public Policy Foundation (Austin, Tex.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Criminal justice $275,000 For the Fiscal Policy Center to provide technical assistance on budget analysis to juvenile-justice advocates and for the Youth Justice Leadership Institute to provide leadership development among juvenile-justice advocates who are minorities: $275,000 to the National Juvenile Justice Network (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Labor issues $360,000 For advocacy and organizing to promote workers' occupational safety and health: $360,000 over two years to the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Labor issues $247,000 To educate, organize, and mobilize religious communities on workers' rights issues such as workplace safety and health, benefits, and wage theft: $247,000 to Interfaith Worker Justice (Chicago, Ill.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Labor issues $200,000 For general support to an organization that focuses on economic-security issues affecting American families, including paid sick days, through online strategies, grass-roots advocacy and media outreach: $200,000 over two years to MomsRising Education Fund (Bellevue, Wash.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Labor issues $150,000 To educate consumers about wage theft: $150,000 to the National Consumers League (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Labor issues $125,000 For general support to this group, which uses human-rights principles to organize low-wage workers in Maryland for better pay and working conditions: $125,000 over 18 months to the United Workers Association (Baltimore, Md.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Civil rights $175,000 To research the history of federal enforcement of civil-rights laws related to higher education in the South: $175,000 to the Southern Education Foundation (Atlanta, Ga.).
3/1/2012 Public Welfare Foundation D.C. Legal services $270,000 To expand the number and reach of state-based Access to Justice Commissions, which seek to enhance the quality of justice in civil legal matters for low-income people, and to provide technical assistance to help them share best practices and innovations taking place in different states: $270,000 over 18 months to the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Ill. Children and youths $500,000 To engage young people in civic life and deter bullying: $500,000 to the Born This Way Foundation (New York, N.Y.).
3/1/2012 Farm Journal Foundation Iowa Agriculture $1,000,000 To alleviate world hunger through sustainable agriculture: $1,000,000 to Heifer International (Little Rock, Ark.).
3/1/2012 Exxon Mobil Corporation Tex. Higher education $500,000 To provide emergency financial aid to college juniors and seniors affected by the economy: $500,000 challenge grant to the United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.).
3/1/2012 Starbucks Foundation Wash. Health $500,000 To improve the health of coffee farmers and their communities in two needy areas in the Sidama Zone of southern Ethiopia: $500,000 to Project Concern International (San Diego, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation N.C. Higher education $1,000,000 To provide emergency financial aid to college juniors and seniors affected by the economy: $1,000,000 to the United Negro College Fund (Fairfax, Va.).
3/1/2012 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Calif. Science $6,000,000 To establish a center to study how cells receive and emit chemical and physical signals from other molecules: $6,000,000 to the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Mandel Foundation Ohio Libraries $5,000,000 For its endowment, organizational development, and programs: $5,000,000 to the West Palm Beach Library Foundation (West Palm Beach, Fla.).
3/1/2012 Omidyar Network Calif. Economic development $3,200,000 To use mobile technology to enable financial transactions across Zambia, funding in collaboration with Accion International: $3,200,000 to Mobile Transactions Internatonal (Lusaka, Zambia).
3/1/2012 Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation Wis. Education $3,100,000 To help disadvantaged students become prepared for postsecondary education: approximately $3,100,000 to 26 programs in Wisconsin.
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Israel $25,000 To help self-employed women from the former Soviet Union to save for retirement and have access to low-fee savings plans: $25,000 to Supportive Community (Tel Aviv, Israel).
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Israel $20,000 To protect women's rights in the Israeli civil and rabbinic courts through precedent-setting legal cases: $20,000 to the Center for Women's Justice (Jerusalem, Israel).
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Israel $20,000 To use Israeli businesswomen to provide support, coaching, and networking to disadvantaged women who are victims of domestic violence: $20,000 to Women's Spirit (Tel Aviv, Israel).
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Jewish life and culture $22,000 To work in collaboration with Hillel: the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life to disseminate Shalom Bayit's dating violence prevention program to college students around the country: $22,000 to the Tides Center (Oakland, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Jewish life and culture $20,000 For antibullying programs and trainings for the inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in schools and communities across the country: $20,000 to Keshet (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).
3/1/2012 Hadassah Foundation N.Y. Jewish life and culture $20,000 For a mentor program focused on leadership and career development among female participants and alumnae of its yearlong service program: $20,000 to Avodah: the Jewish Service Corps (New York, N.Y.).
3/1/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Climate change $100,000,000 For general operating support: $100,000,000 to the ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco, Calif.).
3/1/2012 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Calif. Education $35,000 To strengthen its financial management systems: $35,000 to the Beryl Buck Institute for Education (Novato, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $800,000 For advocacy and communication to support tobacco-control policies: $800,000 to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation N.J. Health $1,485,047 For the Executive Nurse Fellows program, which provides advanced leadership opportunities for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health, and nursing education: $1,485,047 to the Center for Creative Laedership (Greensboro, N.C.).
3/1/2012 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Calif. Marine issues $5,000,000 To continue implementing the Marine Life Protection Act in California: $5,000,000 over 62 months to the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation (Sacramento, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Calif. Marine issues $2,506,673 To advance the use of coastal and marine spatial planning, the analysis of current and anticipated uses of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes areas, in the United States: $2,506,673 over 20 months to the Ocean Conservancy (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Calif. Marine issues $614,595 To engage people in regional marine spatial planning in New England and the development of a comprehensive, ecosystem-based regional plan: $614,595 over two years to the Conservation Law Foundation (Boston, Mass.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 For the Grad Nation Summit and the Grad Nation Action Collaborative, which seek to reduce the number of teenagers who drop out of high school: $200,000 to the America's Promise Alliance (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 To investigate interactive mobile phone applications and youth-generated media that connect first-generation students with information about preparing for college: $200,000 to the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education (Atlanta, Ga.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 To investigate the cost structure of state assessments including the costs associated with adopting and maintaining Common Core State Standards (which provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn) assessments by states: $200,000 to the Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 To plan for the development of a new prototype of a financial aid information system that engages students: $200,000 to College Forward (Austin, Tex.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 To design and test a transition management system to help students navigate all levels of the transition into open enrollment institutions: $200,000 to the Education Policy Improvement Center (Eugene, Ore.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $200,000 To see that students across the country are paired with mentors: $200,000 to iMentor (New York, N.Y.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $350,000 For nonpartisan research, analysis, education, and outreach to improve financial aid policies and practices that help increase college affordability, college completion, and reduce student debt burden: $350,000 to the Institute for College Access and Success (Oakland, Calif.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $250,900 To integrate college access and success within the Young Men's Christian Association of the USA's continuum of education achievement programs and activities: $250,900 to the National Council of the Young Men's Christian Association of the USA (Chicago, Ill.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $245,300 For policy research and recommendations on issues of college affordability, financial aid, and college completion in North Carolina: $245,300 to the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research (Raleigh, N.C.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $1,560,000 For state-level K-12 and postsecondary collaboration and alignment on the design and implementation of the Common Core State Standards and assessments: $1,560,000 to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (New York, N.Y.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $500,000 To move states from information sharing and networking to the adoption of proven statewide remedial education policy and practice reforms: $500,000 to the Education Commission of the States (Denver, Colo.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $544,300 To enhance student level data to better track postsecondary education outcomes and concurrent enrollments: $544,300 to the National Student Clearinghouse (Herndon, Va.).
3/1/3012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $50,000 To increase the number of black males with bachelor's degrees: $50,000 to the Southern University System Foundation (Baton Rouge, La.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $414,900 To explore the use of the Degree Qualifications Profile, which defines the learning and quality that college degrees should signify, to measure and improve student learning at four-year universities: $414,900 to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $817,200 To involve students and employers in creating better alignment between students' mastery of agreed-upon learning objectives for specific degrees and workplace relevance, with regards to the study of history: $817,200 to the American Historical Association (Washington, D.C.).
3/1/2012 Lumina Foundation for Education Ind. Education $486,000 To assist states and systems in developing and implementing policies with the potential to help educate more students: $486,000 to the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education (Atlanta, Ga.).